Community Voices: Dumbarton

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Younger speakers

Interviewer: Have youse got any holidays or anything coming up?
Ross: No, nothing booked. Gonna try and get to T in the Park.
Interviewer: Aye, aye.
Ross: Aye, try and-- try and save money and go to that.
Interviewer: Mhm. Somebody was saying-- that I was talking to last night was saying they think eh Beyonce's gonna be there.
Ross: Aye.
Adele: Oh really?
Interviewer: I don't know if you'd be interested in that but-- 'Cause I'm going to see her in--
Adele: Ah yeah.
Interviewer: At Hampden but somebody was saying it's gonna be at the same time, there's talk, like, maybe her dueting with Coldplay.
Adele: Oh right, okay.
Interviewer: I don't know.
Adele: You always hear loads of rumours, don't you?
Interviewer: Aye. And it's in that new eh-- new location now, int it?
Ross: Aye.
Interviewer: Eh, so och that'll be good then, that'll-- hopefully get a ticket. I've never been.
Adele: I've never either.
Interviewer: Do you no fancy it [name].
Adele: Mhm, no I'm no really that way inclined.
Interviewer: No.
Adele: Don't like the dirt.
Interviewer: Mhm, I'm like that as well. Um, I did that Big Weekend in Glasgow.
Adele: Mhm.
Interviewer: I managed to get tickets for the full weekend, so it was the three days, and I was totally done in but I wasnae staying there, it wasnae like camping or anything but I was like that--
Adele: Yeah, aye but even at that.
Interviewer: day three. Aye.
Adele: My friends went to that Big Weekend. I always want to go to T in the Park but I just know that I couldnae hack it.
Interviewer: Mhm.
Adele: I think I'm too old for it now.
Interviewer: Aye. You need to be hardcore.
Adele: Cannae be bothered with all they weans bouncing about, no.

Older speakers

Jack: And see the funny thing was, you were talking about that wee-- wee mini break. We only got-- we got there, we got wir meal, back up to the room and that and watching the-- it came to about 10 o'clock, half 10 and the smoke alarm went off. Thingmy and that are like that "oh, ignore it" and then the door went-- "you'll need to evacuate the room, you'll need to get out the room." Like that "what?" So we had to go oot, go along a corridor and we went doon-- there was about four emergency exits, fire escapes.
Interviewer: Mhm.
Jack: Know at the bit-- it's a complex thing. And we're a' standing, the guy came in and he says "it's a false alarm, just" but you couldna get back to sleep.
Interviewer: Oh, what time was this?
Jack: You-- that was you up, you know what I mean, it was about half past eh-- about half 12 at night, do you know what I mean?
Interviewer: And that's your night really, int it?
Jack: And that was your night, you know, and time you got to sleep or whatever it was about two or
Rhona: And then when you're up in the morning, aye.
Jack: three, you know what I mean? It was eh kind of--
Interviewer: Aye.
Jack: I'm not saying it put a dampner on it but it-- you know.